Number 3, 2006

Special Theme of the Issue

Gumilev's Lessons: Brilliance and Poverty of the Ethnogenesis Theory

(guest editor: V.A. Shnirelman)

Introduction

V. A. Shnirelman

Lev Gumilev: From the “Passionary Tension” to the “Incompatibility of Cultures”

V. A. Shnirelman

Toward a Critique of L.N. Gumilev’s Concepts

V. A. Koreniako

Lev Gumilev’s Ethnos Theory and Doctrines of “New Rightists” in the West

M. Laruelle

Gumilev’s Ideas and Contemporary Russian Geopolitics

K. E. Aksenov

Discussion of the Issue: The Origins of the Ethnos Theory: S.M. Shirokogorov and Others

(guest editor: A.M. Kuznetsov)

An Introduction to the Discussion

A. M. Kuznetsov

S.M. Shirokogorov’s Ethnos Theory

A. M. Kuznetsov

Soviet “Theory” of Ethnos and Its South African Parallel

P. Skalnik

S. Shirokogorov: At the Roots of Social-Biological Interpretation of Ethnos

V. R. Filippov

Comments

F. Bertrand

W. van Meurs

S. N. Abashin

A. A. Nikishenkov

Rabbit’s Thoughts at Fox’s Grave

S. A. Arutiunov

Once Again on the Published (On the Discussion in No 2, 2005)

Once Again on the Problems of Ethnology in Uzbekistan

D. A. Alimova,  Z. K. Arifkhanova,  A. A. Ashirov,  R. R. Nazarov

Articles

Khan Power among the Kazakh: A Title and/or an Office

A. Y. Bykov

History of the Discipline

Remembering V.N. Chemetsov (Toward the Hundredth Anniversary, March 17, 1905 – March 29,1970)

Z. P. Sokolova

In Memory of a Scholar

In Memory of Yuri Israelovich Mkrtumian

S. A. Arutiunov

On the Journal's Website

Reviews and Surveys

Ethnicity and Social Work: An Analysis of Textbooks

P. V. Romanov,  E. R. Yarskaia-Smirnova

Review of Byt’ Hi chuvstvovat’? Osnovnye aspekty formirovaniia evreiskoi samoidentifikatsii и potomkov smeshannykh brakov v sovremennoi Rossii (To Be or To Feel? Main Aspects of the Shaping of Jewish Identity among the Mixed Marriage Descendants in Contemporary Russia), by E. Nosenko. Moscow, 2004

S. Y. Kozlov

Review of Russkie v SShA: Istoriia isud’by, 1870-1970. Etnoistoricheskii ocherk (Russians in the USA: History and Destinies, 1870-1970. Ethnohistorical Study), by E.L. Nitoburg. Moscow, 2005

I. Y. Zarinov

Review of К istorii khristianstva v Khakasii (On the History of Christianity in Khakasia), by V.l. Gladyshevskii. Abakan, 2004

V. I. Kharitonova

Review of Krug igry: prazdnik i igra v zhizni severnorusskogo krest’ianina, XIX-XX veka (The Game Circle: Holiday and Game in the Life of a Northern Russian Peasant in the 19th-20th Centuries), by I.A. Morozov and I.S. Sleptsova. Moscow, 2004

Y. D. Anchabadze